It’s FRIDAY, yahoooooo! Any fun weekend plans? Not me, cannot think of anything I am doing for sure. Maybe catch a movie since it’s supposed to be rainy Sat and Sun.

Today I’ve got the new ORLY Sunset Strip Holiday 2016 collection for you. This collection consists of six new shades in various finishes. I love that so many brands this year are thinking outside the box with their holiday collections! It seems like most of them have quite a few shades that aren’t necessarily classic “holiday” colors, and I dig it.

I think we are officially into the fall/winter nail season folks. Summer is long gone as far as nail polish and makeup brands care. Technically we still have 5 weeks of summer, and we are just getting into here in the Bay Area. Yep, our warmest and most sultry months are August, September and October. So while all of you lucky birds will be busting out your sweaters, boots, jackets and scarves, we will be melting here. And I do love me some warm weather, but by the time it clicks over to fall officially on the calendar, I WANT it to be cooler!

The Mulholland Fall 2016 collection features six news shades in a variety of finishes. I swatched all of these with two-three coats and didn’t have any problems formula-wise with any of them.

Mansion Lane

Mansion Lane is a dark taupe/grey creme. Beautiful taupe color, not sure how unique it is compared to all my other taupe cremes though.

The Pacific Coast Highway stretches down L.A.’s coast and is quite the beautiful drive if you haven’t ever seen it before. I’m not sure what these colors have to do with the highway exactly, but there is a definite beachy, summery vibe here, and I like it!

As far as formula everything was pretty darn great. I used just two coats (over a ridge filling base coat – not a white base coat) for all shades with one exception.

Road Trippin

Road Trippin is a yellow neon creme. This one did require three thin coats to get it more even. Now if you are going to ask how it compares to Glowstick I just so happen to have that bottle out right now to compare. Glowstick is a lighter, more “highlighter” shade of yellow whereas this is more of a “sunny” yellow. However it’s definitely very neon!

Summer Sunset

Summer Sunset is a bright, warm-toned orange with gold and orange shimmer. This particular color doesn’t work with my skin tone very well, but it’s really pretty.

Put The Top Down

Put The Top Down is a neon flamingo pink. Super intense and gorgeous!

Life’s A Beach

Life’s A Beach is a neon road-sign orange creme. This is SO bright and amazing, I love it!

Scenic Route

Scenic Route is a light lilac creme. This is a soft and pretty shade, not super bright though.

Paradise Cove

Paradise Cove is a bright shimmery purple. Usually for some reason purple is never really truly neon, and this one isn’t either, but it’s really bright and pretty anyway.

I’m loving this entire collection! They mostly had a really good formula and you don’t need white underneath for the neon ones to be super bright. Who has time for that? My personal favorites are Put The Top Down and Life’s A Beach.

You can find this collection on the ORLY site and wherever ORLY is sold and they are $8.50 each.

The ORLY Melrose Spring 2016 Collection features six new nail shades in a variety of finishes all inspired by the famous Melrose Avenue in L.A.

This week is super busy for me because of family stuff going on, so I am going to be short on words here!

Beautifully Bizarre

Beautifully Bizarre is a pale pink with lots of blue/green pearly shimmer. This one is a stunner and definitely my favorite in the collection. This was two coats.

Trendy

Trendy is a coral with pink shimmer. For me this one was a dud. Not because of the color itself, which is nice, but the formula was thick and the shimmer looks lumpy-ish, and it kind of settles down into the polish, making it not that visible. This was two coats.

Vintage

Vintage is a pale seafoam green creme. Gorgeous shade. In person it looks like more of a subdued vintage-mint (as the name implies) than it looks here. This was two coats.

Hip and Outlandish

Hip and Outlandish is a bright teal green creme. I could not for the LIFE OF ME get this color to show on my camera anywhere near the shade it actually is, so this is edited to look more accurate. This was two coats.

Feel the Funk is a lilac shimmer with holographic glitter. This one is a little on more sheer side so I needed three coats. Pretty if you love princess-y looking shades!

My faves here were definitely Beautifully Bizarre and Vintage, though Hip and Outlandish is also very pretty in person. I don’t know if my bottle of Trendy was bad or not, but the formula was definitely not great.

You can find this collection this month at Sally Beauty Supply, Ulta, etc.

Orly In The Mix for fall 2015 features six news shades which mostly look like spring or summer colors, but that doesn’t bother me!

This is a street inspired collection that features intense, bright colors. You will find five creme finishes and one super cool glitter.

Freestyle

Freestyle is a bright coral/pink creme. Even though this looks like a spring or summer shade, I really like it. It’s bright, but not neon, and smooth with two coats.

Electropop

Electropop is a super bright fuchsia creme. Again, this isn’t neon but close to it. This was two coats.

Indie

Indie is a medium denim blue creme. They describe this as a “quaker blue” but I have no idea what that means! It’s sightly purple-ish and really nice. This was two coats.

Turn It Up

Turn It Up features multi-colored and multi-sized matte glitter pieces in a clear base. It’s rare that I say this about a glitter, but I LOVE this one! I have started to realize that I actually do like glitters, if they are matte. I don’t like metallic or holo glitter that much, but this? Yes please. This was two coats kind of dabbed on over Indie.

Off Beat

Off Beat is a deep violet with a crelly (creme/jelly) formula. I don’t love this shade personally but the formula was nice and this was two coats.

Midnight Show

Midnight Show is a a midnight blue crelly. It took three thin coats to get it covered completely but it’s a nice, deep shade.

For me the stand-out shades here are Freestyle, Indie and Turn It Up. You can find these now at Sally Beauty Supply and they are around $5.00-6.00 each.